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- noun Plural form of
antihypertensive .
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Examples
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Then there are the antihypertensives, the sleep aids, the medications for Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, and on and on.
Maggie Kozel, M.D.: Little Pharma: The Medication Of U.S. Children M.D. Maggie Kozel 2011
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These drugs included natural and synthetic hormones, antibiotics, antihypertensives, painkillers, and antidepressants.
Scott Dodd: Drugs in Our Drinking Water Scott Dodd 2010
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Historically, there has been no cause to look systematically for risk factors of vascular disease in this population, let alone apply the use of antihypertensives and statin drugs to avert calamity.
David Katz, M.D.: Rising Rate Of Youth Strokes: Why It Was Predictable M.D. David Katz 2011
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Then there are the antihypertensives, the sleep aids, the medications for Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol, and on and on.
Maggie Kozel, M.D.: Little Pharma: The Medication Of U.S. Children M.D. Maggie Kozel 2011
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Drivers who had ingested at least one level 2 or level 3 drug — categories that include such medications as antihypertensives, diabetes drugs, opioids and antidepressants — accounted for 3.3% of the serious crashes and were at higher risk of being responsible for a crash than drivers taking lower-level drugs or who weren ' t on medication.
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A New Hampshire nephrologist tracked his creatinine and prescribed antihypertensives.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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TLC is slower in its effects than medications such as statins, or antihypertensives.
David Katz, M.D.: Lifestyle Changes vs. Medication: When Each Is Right 2010
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We did the workup, including the angiogram showing the “funky aneurysms,” and then tried to get her pressure down with antihypertensives.
After the Diagnosis MD Julian Seifter 2010
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TLC is slower in its effects than medications such as statins, or antihypertensives.
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Hormones, antibiotics, or antihypertensives can prevent an embryo from implanting in the uterus.
A Baby at Last! Mark L. Fuerst 2010
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